by Lisa Marlin | Apr 27, 2018 | Blog, Middle Age
I needed to end things with Mike. And Jake. Oh, and Cameron too, though he’s the least of my worries. Mike used to call all the time and I couldn’t refuse answering, telling myself when his number lit up my phone that it’s best to listen to what he has to say. I...
by Lisa Marlin | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog, Writing
It’s a good thing that the woman in seat 8A listened to her neighbor back home and brought wet wipes in her carry-on. “You just never know when you might need them,” her neighbor had advised her. And as luck would have it, she did need them when the passenger in...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 28, 2018 | My Journey, Published
(This story was first published in The Dallas Morning News on July 27, 2003.) With a mother and sister who had breast cancer, the odds for the same thing happening in my lifetime have always been high; one medical study has shown my risk to be five times greater than...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
There was something oddly familiar about my 15-year-old daughter’s appearance when she left for school the other day. At first, I imagined it was the way her hair cascaded in golden waves over her shoulders that caused her to look like a younger version of me. I later...
by Lisa Marlin | Mar 1, 2018 | Blog, Middle Age, Parenting
My daughter will never fill my shoes. She’s a size smaller after all. But she asked to borrow a pair anyway because of a last-minute decision to wear flats on the first day of her internship where she anticipated a lot of walking. Even though she owns piles of high...